<gumse@gyral.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm a newbie on this, i have a Bsd-box and a DAT - drive, could
> you please send me the scrips/commands you use for the a full backup.
> 
> regards,
> Lars.

Nothing special, really.  Everything is in the man pages for tar.
Personally, as root I use:

tar -cPv -X /etc/exclude /

c - create an archive
P - retain absolute pathnames ( don't strip leading /'s)
v - verbose.  Usually, I have tar running in it's own x term.
    Personally, I like to see what's happening.  This flag may not be
    for you.
X - Using an 'exclude file'. (/etc/exclude).  This is the stuff I
    don't want archived. (/proc and /kern)

and the final slash -- the root file system -- what I want tarred.
    
Notice that since I didn't use -f or name a destination file, tar
assumes the destination to be a tape drive at /dev/rst0

Then to rewind when I'm done:

mt -f /dev/rst0 rewind

(man mt for more info)

If you want to make a text copy of the man page --
man tar | col -b > tar.txt will strip out all of the formatting characters.

-- 
Steve Revilak
revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
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